Mother Fox Quotes in The Mosquito Coast (1986)

[last lines]

Allie Fox: Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles, straight lines. You cut yourself opening a can of tuna and you die. We still going up-river mother?

Mother Fox: Yes darling.

Charlie: [narration] Once I had believed in father, and the world had seemed small, and old. Now he was gone, and I wasn't afraid to love him any more. And the world seemed limitless.

Mother Fox: [in the midst of a storm] We could go downstream to Haddy's.

Allie Fox: No, dead things go down stream mother, life is upstream!